Loving robot

Such books are a great success. We recommend it to everyone!

Everything about them is beautiful: the plot, the language, the characters, and the subtext.

In the first book, a robot created to help with housework accidentally ends up on a desert island. The forest inhabitants greet Rose (this robot is a girl) with hostility, are afraid of her, drive her away, avoid her, and show aggression. Roz is not offended and does not despair - there are no such programs built into her - Roz is programmed to survive, and to survive in the wild she needs to learn from the locals. Therefore, the robot calmly and persistently seeks contacts with the inhabitants of the island. She watches them, learns camouflage from them, masters animal languages, helps them and even saves their lives. Little by little, the indigenous people get used to it.

And then a sudden event happens - Roz becomes a mother. She adopts a gosling left without parents. Without Roz, this baby would be doomed, but there is little hope for Roz either: the parenthood program is not in her microcircuits. But Roz is no longer alone, everyone who understands at least something about raising children comes to the aid of the young family; everyone who recently shunned the robot cannot indifferently pass by the mother in need of support.

And then an unusually harsh winter sets in on the island, and now Roz is the only hope of salvation for many animals, because she knows how to keep warm. Finally, Roz becomes a full-fledged member of society, she is needed and loved. This would have been the end of the fairy tale, but it turned out that all this time Roz had been looking for combat robots programmed to destroy her.

The second part of this story is even more so. No, I won’t say “interesting”, both books are equally good. The second part is more dynamic. In it, Roz, from the first to the last page, strives to meet her goose son, from whom she was separated. She runs away from the farm, where she lives with very good owners, to whom she has sincerely become attached. The master's children help her escape after hearing her life story. She makes her way through forests and mountains, makes her way through a pack of wolves, and ends up in a huge city, where patrol robots are waiting for her. She rushes across rooftops, hides in sewers, pretends to be someone else, gets into a firefight - she rushes to her son. The second book also ends with a twist.

These interesting and deep books are designed more for teenagers, but will also be interesting for younger students. Of course, it is unlikely that six- and seven-year-olds will ask the questions “who we are and where are we going” after reading these books, but the plot will captivate them. But for 10-12-14 years old, philosophical questions about man’s place in this world, about relationships with other beings, about humanity, about the natural and the artificial are given here in just the right proportion.